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<td>Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.</td>
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<td class="v">1:18</td>
<td>And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.</td>
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<td class="v">1:19</td>
<td>We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:</td>
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<td class="v">1:20</td>
<td>Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.</td>
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<td class="v">1:21</td>
<td>For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.</td>
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